Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. A C19 Milestone.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- lost-step-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone, Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale
- OS grid reference
- SU 343 926
- Coordinates
- 51.63162, -1.5053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone from the early 19th century located on the west side of Faringdon Road in Stanford-in-the-Vale. It is made of limestone, painted white with black lettering, indicating the distances to Faringdon (4 miles) and Wantage (5 miles).
Local climate
Milestone receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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